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Originally Posted by railwaybuddy
depends on the location the the freight services depends on the operator, so its a mixture of GB and DB, i heard it was a DB freight service that derailed, but one thing i can deffo tell you it caused a bit of trouble at London Liverpool Street and Tottenham Hale that there was no service to Kings Lynn.
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Nope. DB Schenker currently runs the Middleton Sand train service. Train reporting numbers are currently 6M88 and 6E88. Drivers over this section are based at Peterborough, and use KL depot for their PNB point.
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talking of the fen line, what is happening to Littleport and Downham Market signal boxes? are they staying or being taken over by Cambridge box?
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It's more drastic than that. NR plans to save massive amounts of money by closing down vast numbers of boxes and replacing tham with a handful of RSCs.
The long term plan is for all Fen Line boxes (Kings Lynn, Magdelan Rd, Downham Mkt, Littleport & Cambridge) to be replaced by Romford Railway Signalling Centre.
The first step of this is that Fen line now has GSM-r operating, so the NRN and CSR analogue radio systems will soon be closed down.
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Originally Posted by The Romford Recorder
The new rail operating centre in Romford will open on land to the east of Jutsums Lane in 2014.
It will eventually control the entire railway in the Anglia region, covering parts of London, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire.
The site is one 14 centres planned to replace all other operating sites across the whole of Britain.
Network Rail says the new centre will create different jobs, as signallers will be responsible for larger sections of the network using the latest technology instead of Victorian infrastructure.
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Link here....
http://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/new...plan_1_1786123
HTH, Beeyar